David Willoughby Gooding

Yes.

And who was David Gooding and what impact did he have on you and your faith?

David Gooding was a professor of Greek.

And he came to Belfast to be a lecturer.

And my father heard him expound scripture in a way that he'd never heard anyone expound scripture before.

We really do.

We are anchoring this whole conversation in some incredible biblical commentaries by David Gooding and J.C. Ryle, focusing specifically on the Gospel of Luke.

And from there, we're layering in some fascinating historical texts outlining the real gritty origins of the Labor Day movement.

Right.

And what is the reaction of the religious leaders? The text says they were filled with madness and they talked one with another what they might do to Jesus.

It's just jarring.

David Gooding in his commentary, according to Luke, zeroes right in on this.

He calls it a state of mindless folly.

So one man put it like this.

David Gooding put it like this.

It says, James, now that is the Greek version of the Hebrew word Jacob.

So Jacob to the 12 tribes of the dispersion.

David Gooding said this.

If you want to think about James, like them last couple of chapters in Genesis, where a man called Jacob, what he does is he gets together his children and he starts to evaluate them.

He says, Reuben, you're this.